Love Songs of the Revolution

An official painter for the Lithuanian Communist Party, Martynas Kudirka enjoys a pleasant, unremarkable life with a beautiful wife and all the privileges that come with being a party member. Yet in the summer of 1989, his ordinary world suddenly turns upside down. Political revolt is breaking out across Eastern Europe, and Martynas comes home to find his wife dead on the kitchen floor with a knife in her back. Realizing the police will not investigate, he sets out to find his wife's killer…. Read more

"Mauldin's conglomeration of texts form a single piece of fiction that works on a number of different levels…. It's all accomplished with wit and aplomb, and as I first read it, I found myself doubting whether or not this truly was fiction." --KC Kirkley, Curbside Splendor

"The resolution of both the novel and the “Extras” is nothing short of brilliant. Love Songs of the Revolution navigates the wonderfully treacherous, mysterious world known as reality." --Scott Navicky, author of Humboldt: Or, The Power of Positive Thinking